Pushing at boundaries : [approaches to contemporary German women writers from Karen Duve to Jenny Erpenbeck] / / edited by Heike Bartel & Elizabeth Boa.
Pushing at Boundaries presents approaches to women writers who have recently had a big impact in shaping the contemporary literary field in Germany. The opening chapters offer the first extensive consideration of Karen Duve's work, including an excerpt from her latest novel, the romance parody...
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| Superior document: | German monitor, no. 64 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | German monitor ;
no. 64. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (193 p.) |
| Notes: | "Most of the essays in this volume originated as papers for a symposium on the work of Karen Duve and other recent German women writers held in May 2004 at the University of Nottingham ..."--P. [3]. |
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Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents; Introduction; Die Mummel; Translating Karen Duve into English with a few peripheral observations on translation in general; The Novels of Karen Duve: just 'chick lit with [...] grime' (and dragons)?; Nature, Bodies and Breakdown in Anne Duden's 'Das Landhaus' and Karen Duve's Regenroman; Lust or Disgust? The Blurring of Boundaries in Karen Duve's Regenroman; ,De nymphis, sylphis, pygmaeis et salamandris' - zur Verwendung eines Motivkreises in Texten von Michael Fritz, Julia Schoch und Karen Duve
- Von Jonny Rotten bis Werther: Karen Duves Dies ist kein Liebeslied zwischen Popliteratur und BildungsromanBecoming Bodies: Corporeal Potential in Short Stories by Julia Franck, Karen Duve, and Malin Schwerdtfeger; 'Ganz gewöhnlicher Ekel'? Disgust and Body Motifs in Jenny Erpenbeck's Geschichte vom alten Kind; 'Nur manchmal mußten sie laut und unverhofft lachen': Kerstin Hensel's Use of Märchen; Granny Knows Best: The Voice of the Granddaughter in 'Grossmütterliteratur'; ,und dabei heißt es immer aufbruchstimmung'. Das Verschwinden einer Metropole in ihren Texten; Notes on Contributors